Elastic suspension for vehicles.



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LICATIOR FILED JUNE 18, 1908.

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I. V .i CLAULE LEOUZON DUC AND LOUIS GARCHEY, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

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Be it known that we, CLAUDE LIEOUZON ,LE Doc and LOUIS GARCHEY, both citizens the axle, b is across-bar of the French Republic, and residents of Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements Relatin to Elastic Sus ension of Vehicles, of whic the following is a full and clear specification.

This invention relates to elasticv suspen sion cf vehicles and more particularly motorcars and has for its'object to provide an imroved. construction of elastic sus ension or vehicles according to which the ody of the carriage is free to dislace itself on the frame in every direction, t re shocks and jars of the axle incident to riding on an uneven road not being transmitted to the body of the carriage. y

A characteristic feature of theinvention is,

that the body of the vehicle is not connected with the frame by any more orless rigid arts and consequently is free to dis lace itself on the frame in any direction the o ject of the invention is not to take the body of the carriage alo with the frame with greater or lesser e asticit but on the contrar to leave the body 0 the carriage absolutel free in simply limiting and weakening any movements which it should execute during riding so as to obtain a riding free from shocks and jars even with wheels which have no pneumatics.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a diainetrical section through a butler-support, vertical to the axle. Fig. 2 re resents a section on line A-B of Fig. 1. F 1g. 3 is a front view of the buffer-sup ort.

Reference being had to t e drawings a, is arallel to-the axle and on which the body of t e carriage is fixed this cross-bar b as es with certain play through a cylindrical box 0, which however may be of any suitable cross section. In the drawings the box is shown of cylindrical cross section but it is obvious, that it could as well be square or polygonal. It is further shown in Fig. 3, that this box 0 consists of two parts connected by bolts d, it may however be made in one piece or consist of more than two parts. The box is closed at the bottom by a jointed bottom lplate e and at the upper end by a. reniovab 6 top plate or cover]; the box is fixed on axle a by a coupling plate g attached to the bottom of the box by rivets h. The box 0 is thus securely Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 18, 1906. Serial No, 322,296.

Patented. Aug. 4,1908.

fixed on the axle the cross-bar I) being rigidly connected with the body of the carria e.

To the upper and lower surfaces 0 cross bar 6 plates i are fixed bymeans of screw bolts 1 which correspond in shape to the cross section of box 0 and form with the cross-bar a kind of piston in said box ada ted to be displaced in vertical direction. T is piston s guided in the box by means of an' i appropriated number of segments in from metal, which are arranged along the periphery of the piston between the two plates i. The segments have cavities on their outer surface which serve as bearings for the balls I.

' The elasticity of the device in horizontal direction is obtained by the insertion of any suitable elastic device between the segments is and cross-bar I), such as for example an india-rubber ring of solid cross section, an airtire or the like, or, as shown in the drawings, a strong spirals ring m (Fig. 1 right hand side) or blade springs n bent accordin to the shape or the segments and fixed wit their ends to the cross-bar b (Fig. 1 left hand side may be filled with air under pressure. It is easy to regulatethe effect of these buffers ov by considering the initial compression effected by thescrew bolts w, which serve for connecting the cover plate with the box; if

necessary washers may be inserted to in crease the. thickness of the cover plate.

It will be easily understood, that through the arrangement described the cross-bar and consequently the body of the carriage are in everv sense se arated from the axle by classtic devices w iich permit a distinct movement of the body of the carriage in any direction and weaken the shocks. The size of the boxes c will be varied according to the weight to be supported by the cross-bar.

It is obvious that the accessories, for exam lo the means for connecting the box wit 1 the axle and for connecting the crossbar with the body of the carriage may be varied at will and that further any suitable material can be employed. The cross-bar b may be placed perpendicular to the axles.

For vehicles drawn by animalsthe'sha-fts; are attached to the front boxes for weakening the shocks produced by the pulling. With the vehicles drawn by animals, such as chaises, lendau's, phaetons etc. the front boxes are fixed on the riding-bolster and the hind boxes on the carriage springs or hind cross-beam; the front under-frame ofthe carria e is connected with the hind underframe hy one or two perches and the body of the'carriage does not longer serve for drawing along the hind under-frame whereby it is no longer ex osed to the shocks which result; from the pul ing, the body of the carria e be-- ing elastically supported by the boxes ereinbefore describe What we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s:-

Boxes for the elastic sus ension of'vehicles 'which leave the body of t e carriage free todislplace itself in any direction serving. merely to mit and weaken .the displacements-of the body, comprising in combination a. box; rigidly connected with the axle, a cross-bar rigidly connected with the body of the carriage, traversing said box, disks fixed to the upper and lower surface of said cross-bar inside the box, segments forming ball bearin s," verti cally arranged on the perlphery of the piston A 

